Polls closed Tuesday night, and towns that haven’t finished counting ballots have two days to get the job done.
Election 2020
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Dion captures Portland City Council seat, Irish wins school board election in District 5
Mark Dion won a four-way race for the District 5 council seat and Jeffrey Irish beat Anthony Emerson for the District 5 seat on the school board.
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Zarro elected to Portland City Council, Russell-Bedder elected to school board
Andrew Zarro will replace Justin Costa on the City Council and Aura Russell-Bedder will replace Timothy Atkinson
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Graham and McConnell win, but Democrats pick up Colorado in battle for Senate
Republicans were defending seats in states once considered long shots for Democrats.
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Coronavirus, economy topped list of Mainers’ concerns heading into elections
With COVID-19 surging in Maine, the majority of local participants in The Associated Press’s national survey said the virus was ‘not at all under control’ in the U.S. and strongly disapproved of President Trump’s handling of the pandemic.
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Wins in Wisconsin and Michigan put Biden one state away from the White House
The former vice president says he expects to win the election, even as President Trump prepares lawsuits in three states and requests a recount in Wisconsin.
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Election Day voting opens with some lines, scattered glitches and ample anxiety across the nation
Americans lined up for a long election season’s final day of voting Tuesday, breezing through cavernous facilities in some cities and waiting by the hundreds in others, and contending with only few scattered glitches in the first hours of Election Day. Nearly 100 million people had already cast ballots as voting got underway, a stunning […]
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Potential for uncounted military votes looms large in swing states
Several factors could make it harder to count all ballots on time, whether mailed or cast in person.
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Election Day shadowed by threats of legal challenges
President Donald Trump says he’s planning an aggressive legal strategy to try prevent Pennsylvania from counting mailed ballots that are received in the three days after the election
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Nation by nation, the world watches Election Day in the U.S.
For countries around the planet, the presidency of Donald Trump in its first term has been a singular experience to watch.